What do you think of Chappelle’s The Closer?

I thought it was clever and to the point. It just points out how cancel culture it is another stupid democrat invented failure that can target anybody. No one is safe from cancel culture, even the stupid .0 2% that's behind the whole movement anyway.

When will people wake up to the fact that liberalism is a cancer to our society and constantly ending in failure.

I haven't watched it and I will not watch it. I find it deeply offensive.

It was fine. It was funny enough. Certainly better comedy than others have produced lately. People are so conditioned to trying to find offense as a first impulse rather than taking things with a grain of salt and understanding that it’s just comedy

What I am trying to figure out is how he got into that one piece jumper in his 2019 special Sticks and Stones. Did he have to crawl in through the neck hole which doesn’t seem big enough

You can judge something as much by its enemies as by its friends. Considering those who hate The Closer, it is obviously a fantastic performance.

closer wrote:

I enjoy Chappelle and am not generally offended by comedians, but several jokes in The Closer, more than I find typical for him, just didn’t feel as funny to me. Almost like below Chappelle’s cutting edge standards. Sticks and Stones in contrast was nicely done. Thoughts?

1) I am NEVER offended by comedians. There should really only be two reactions to comedians - funny or not funny.

2) I've never been a big Dave Chappelle fan. I don't hate him, and he has made me laugh, but it's been rare.

He’s a good storyteller and I will listen to anything he puts out until he gives me reason not to. Closer was solid, though not in the group of his best work.

juvie wrote:

What I am trying to figure out is how he got into that one piece jumper in his 2019 special Sticks and Stones. Did he have to crawl in through the neck hole which doesn’t seem big enough

It had buttons under the flap.

100% agree. Was not offended just didn't think it was up to his normal level, Didn't finish it

I watched Chappelle's last video (The Closer). It was funny. But I didn't think it was as funny as a lot of other stuff he's done. He spent too much time trying to explain himself to all his haters. It was worth watching, though. I give it a B-.

After watching it, I watched several stand-ups by Sebastian Maniscalco and those were super funny. A+, all of them.

I laughed.

He's a half-woke poking the fully woke to get publicity.

Not a funny comedian at all, is why he has to resort to it. Used to be ok, long ago.

It is always funny at somebody else's expense.

The entire show could be rewritten to be about any other social group (blacks, whites, jewish, native americans, Chicago Socks etc.) and therefore become offensive. I could literally exchange some words and make it about black (or white) people and of a sudden it is majorly insulting.

On the side of comedy, The Closer was sub par and it's slowly becoming obvious that Dave is getting old and his success has somewhat gotten to his head.

There’s nothing funnier than multi-millionaires pretending they’re victims. So, by that standard Chapelle and Rogan’s recent work is hilarious.

I would agree it wasn't his best, but anyone who watched it not expecting to be offended doesn't know his comedy. He pushes buttons and does so very deliberately, but almost always he makes people think. And usually laugh as well.

I am reminded of a bit he did about Michael Richards' standup disaster. He said it make it realize that he was 20% Black and 80% comedian, because his primary reaction was "damn, he's having a bad set. Don't let them get you down!" It's about the comedy, not the offensiveness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kth0UOU5a_M

Took on the two biggest lobbies in the nation.

Each uses it power to silence and destroy anyone who does not roll over for them,

Each portrays itself as victims as they wield tremendous power.

Kudos to Dave Chappelle

If we apply todays standards in comedy to people from the past we would never have some of the funniest material ever.

Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Red Fox, Carlin, Chris Rock etc all would have had to delete their best stuff.

Lighten up and learn to laugh at everything in a comedy show.

Its all a joke.

Flagpole wrote:

1) I am NEVER offended by comedians. There should really only be two reactions to comedians - funny or not funny. ....

I disagree. Completely.

I do think we need to give artists some room that we don't give people in other contexts. Comics, musicians, writers, poets, painters .. in their work, i absolutely think they get a pass for things that we do well to otherwise not say/express. Sure.

But the fact that something is "funny" doesn't warrant a pass. For the artist OR the audience.

We've all laughed at something at one time or another that in hindsight, we see really wasn't funny or that we only felit it was funny becuae of some underlying position we held at that time. And often times those underlying positions need work and redirection.

I'm sure thousands of people laughed at some pretty horrifically racist sh** in the past and they genuinely "felt" it as funny. but it's only funny if you think the people being mocked were of no value and worth mocking.

Where it becomes a difficult thing fo rus as a society to navigate is

a) with social media we don't really know what's "on stage" and what's just general public discourse any more. Thats a blurred line and we haven't yet figured out how to reconcile that, and

b) looking back. We can easily sit in judgement ove some sh** someone said or did 10, 20, 30 - 50 years ago .. or further, and then decide we should ask for our pound of flesh today. And that's difficult to do. It's so contextual and there are so many variables .. has the artist taken their own pound of flesh, for example, and apologized, sincerely, and acknowledged where they misstepped? etc, etc, etc.

But no .. the reaction to a comic need not only be "funny or not funny" at all.

It was too political.

Felt more like a political statement than a comedy piece. Not that I disagreed with what he was saying, but the strong political message took away from its comedic value.

I find him to be brilliant but not particularly funny.

His humor is too rough for my tastes but I do admire his intellect and willingness to call out the ultra woke.